#money crab

[shopwitchvamp]

[dead-body-in-the-basement]

Write a card to the birthday bastard

[crabsnpersimmons]

exam 5 for me... tomorrow!

honestly have been feeling really nervous for this exam since my classmates have either failed it or just barely passed. and i had less time to study this time around because i rushed to book the exam.

so i drew this little encouragement early cuz i need the reminder that no matter what happens tomorrow, i did what i could and i didn't compromise on my boundaries—and that is its own victory.

and i hope that you'll be reminded to celebrate your own big and small victories too!

"You are nervous and that's okay! You did your best! You set boundaries! You took breaks! We're so proud of you, Starlight! Whatever happens, we'll always be here, cheering you on!"

[limelocked]

It feels like @staff and @humans have really lost the thread on what tumblr actually is, because tumblr is theoretically not a social media site

Back in ye olden days having your own personal blog with like blogspot was all the rage, it was clunky to find other blogs since they were entire other websites AND THATS WHAT TUMBLR IS

Tumblr is a hub that lets you look at all the new content from your blogs in one place, that’s why it’s so different fundamentally from what I’ll call the MySpace model of social media, that’s why I think redditors as forum users fit into the ecosystem so much faster than twitter people, because Reddit is tumblr but for forums instead of blogs

Trying to make tumblr look and or function like twitter, a fundamentally different product, will just end up making people leave en masse like we did in late 2018 to find greener pastures, and especially pastures that don’t roll out updates in vague corporate speak and with no specific prior notice (because staffs recent post was worded towards shareholders and not Us)

[muffinlance]

I am late to the crabs, but here is a review

Dislikes:

The part where I try to pet them and they go ":(" and turn into money bags? The unwanted touch of capitalism destroys crab friends?

Why are they saying "hand"? Why this body part? Why ONLY this body part? Is this what they will eat first of me should I slumber in the Tumblr deep?

Likes:

The part where trying to pet them clicks So Many Things I Did Not Want To Click

The part where I elevated the site to new heights of unusability because crabs are kamikazeing into my mouse at every click

The part where I rendered the Summon Crabs button unusable because See Above

The part in all this where I kept starting to type "because there are Too Many Crabs" but realized that "Too Many Crabs" is not actually a state that exists

Important update: THEY WORK ON MOBILE TOO?

RIP my Tumblr app for the next 24 hours I'm going to make some FRIENDS <3

[secretagentspydetectiveninja]

Redrawing some of my favourite "aromantic moments" from the games for Ace Attorney Aspec Week! (shush, pretend I'm not slightly late) @aspec-ace-attorney

There are definitely more than just these, these were the ones I could remember off the top of my head

As someone who comes from a marriage-heavy culture, seeing Edgeworth -- this respected, established, renowned character both in and out of universe -- firmly assert that it's something he doesn't want for himself is SO VALIDATING YOU HAVE NO IDEA

Dr Crab's line is just aro. I don't think there's any allo explanation for this one.

There are actually a fair few moments throughout the games where Phoenix internally comments on Maya's response to romance, but this one always stood out to me because it's the biggest mood of all time. No, I don't want romance. Yes, I want food. I understand Maya deeply in this moment.

Listen I know Asinine Attorney isn't technically canon but Apollo turning down Klavier was too iconic to miss. You're telling me a hot, sweet, rich rock star asks you out to dinner and you say NO??? ...Power move, Herr Forehead. I can respect it.

"Intellectually attracted" is hilarious because Lana doesn't even deny it. Ema is about 16 at this point and definitely knows what romance is. So considering that she somehow misses one of the most lesbian lines in the whole series, and her sister doesn't bother to correct her, I'm going with the "Ema is aro" explanation for it.

[daily-crabbys]

i dont like mixing my main socials with my crab blog, and i dont want to overwhelm myself, BUT. if i shared my commission sheet here would anybody be interested

[official-crab-posts]

i think… perhaps… three jobs is too many…

[crehador]

mulled it over for a while and ultimately decided i'm really digging this arajin-matakara fight, because like

the whole series has set up arajin as a piece of shit fuckhead (and i LOVE that for him) but this whole lying to matakara about wanting to be a honki people thing... is like the one thing he did not actually do

i get real rambly under the cut but tl;dr the way matakara treats arajin is the way arajin treats mahoro and that is suuuch a juicy parallel to me

throughout the whole series arajin has been not at all subtly trying to get away from these fights

could he have been more direct about that with matakara? sure maybe! but matakara was really ignoring all the signs that arajin is not who he thinks he is

which is such a delicious parallel to how arajin willfully ignores all the signs that mahoro is not into him

like. matakara built this version of arajin up in his head, with all these unreasonable, unrealistic, and honestly unfair? expectations based off some past foolishness from when they were very small children. he's clinging to this version of arajin that only exists in his head and has basically shown zero evidence of existing in real life

(yes arajin shows crumbs of courage but i think the scales are tipped pretty heavily towards his I DO NOT WANT ANY PART OF THIS moments)

this fight between them was like if arajin were to blow up at mahoro like "you've been leading me on this whole time!" when obviously. lol. no she has not

she did initially! just like tiny arajin as a child had those honki people ambitions! his ambitions may have been genuine, while mahoro feigned interest in him with malicious intent, but they're same in the sense that after that initial story beat, they have consistently demonstrated that actually no what happened back then no longer applies (whether because they grew out of it, in arajin's case, or they were faking interest in the first place, in mahoro's case)

but arajin is blinded by what he wants (mahoro) and ignores the reality of mahoro snubbing him at every turn, and matakara does the same, ignoring the reality of arajin really just... being extremely reluctant to have anything at all to do with him

anyway that's the main thing i'm chewing on and loving here, but ALSO i think the story paints this parallel in such an interesting way because like

matakara is just a big sweet ouppy dog of a boy! it's so so so easy to feel sorry for him, to root for him, to think the best of him. which i still do btw, in fact this episode made me like him more than i already did

because matakara is so uwu angelboy perfect, and arajin is such a dickhead, it's easy to instinctively think oh matakara must be completely right to be hurt and arajin must have hurt him. even if that isn't the case! this doesn't make arajin any less of a dickhead, but he's a dickhead mainly for other reasons

the fact that they've been set up as the perfect epitome of the Pure Boy and the Pervy Boy tropes is just such clever framing for this parallel between them, because i imagine a lot of viewers, if told what mataakara is doing to arajin is what arajin is doing to mahoro, would be like omg wtf no my pure angel baby is nothing like that disgusting freak?

except in this case! he literally is!! which is brilliant!!! i think it adds nuance to both matakara's character and arajin's character at the same time, making it so it's not just one of them is Perfect and one of them is Wrong All The Time

what's even better is that this made sense for matakara, like his reaction breaks him out of the Pure Angel mold but doesn't feel out of character. his emotions are already running high with what happened to his brother, plus akutaro is malewife mansplain manipulating him behind the scenes, so of course he feels like he's driven towards this emotional high that leads to this blowup

the groundwork was already laid out, and it wasn't even subtle. it was right on the surface! but this episode really highlighted how matakara's way of treating arajin is so much like arajin's way of treating mahoro and how inevitable it was that things would reach this point

(there are moments, even in this episode, that are in hindsight so clearly setting up this parallel! like arajin trying to talk to mahoro during lunch, mahoro CLEARLY not interested, making viewers think ugh arajin get a clue. then matakara often IMMEDIATELY coming in to try to talk to arajin, when arajin is the one who clearly isn't interested, making viewers think boo arajin be nicer to him! like i think the show deliberately set the audience up to have those emotional reactions, and this is the moment where the rug is pulled out from under us, so to speak, where it becomes even more obvious that... wait... double standard much?)

anyway. personally my only gripe with this episode is i wished they'd done more with aniki than just pseudo-fridge him, and hope they do still do more with him in the coming eps? but kind of understandable if they don't, because it is just a one-cour show after all

the actual blowup between arajin and matakara was just. mawh, chef's kiss. perfect

[crow-caller]

just read your tags on the lab post, and omg I thought I was the only one who had a golden retriever who doesnt like water! He loves retrieving stuff from the water but won't go any deeper than the bottom of his chest! Weirdo!

Yes!! Jake was a rescue golden we had years ago. Very very good boy, hated water. We'd take him to the river for swimming and he'd only go in to fetch, and even then never deep enough he'd have to swim.

Here is he over a decade ago, with Russell ♡

Meanwhile Cooper is my parents' current dog, we got him as a puppy (i say we but I was there at the time, he's MY BOY even tho I haven't seen him for years). He is a typical golden in that he LOVES water he LOVES mud!!

Thanks for coming to my dog talk

Here's a puppy coop also

[carhorno]

silly jrwi animatic 😎 only took me like a month to finish 😅

[schizoideh]

"There's nothing bad or shameful in taking an opportunity - take it or you will be pushed back and left behind forever. Virtue is never good for you."

ALL KNEEL BEFORE THE CRAB... Cause she's too short to smack you normally.

Change, the crab, the legend, the embodiment of insolence. First character that doesn't belong to the urbex faction. Instead, she is a leader of her own - the Big Sister Ship Crew that consists of her on a role of the Captain and her sisters the rest of the crew, all working in synch like gears in a clock.

Despite being small, Change is more than a capable fighter with great leadership skills, which why out of all other crab sisters she was chosen as a captain. Lots of people underestimate her until they found themselves walking the plank and being held at bladepoint, which is a common event on their ship. Change, and sisters too, pursues the free pirate lifestyle she picked up after the apocalypse struck, freeing her from an annoying 9\5 office job and letting her sail the seas and look for treasure and adventures instead. It might seem pointless as the society has already collapsed and gold basically has no value anymore, but she believes the hunt worths more than the treasure itself, and when it comes to dealing with others who's not a part of her family - well, she just likes bullying people. Probably overcompensates something, but do not dare to hint at it - you don't want to deal wth an armored goblin-sized menace.

[phantomwyvern]

Another set of little outfit designs, this time with Firth. Left is once again from @merloksdigitaltoes swap AU, middle is from my post canon AU and the right hand one is the Firth emoji from the Aggro Crab discord. Featuring a Monopoly money poncho, biohazard sticker vest, and a 8 of spades vest

[crabsnpersimmons]

HEHEHE TRICK OR TREAT >:3c

NAHHH MAN

YOU STILL HAVEN'T PAID FOR THE DAMAGES TO MY WINDOW!

GET BACK HERE!!

[remarkablebookbean]

YALL KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS! CRAB RAVE!

[crab-crab]

This was originally leg practice but it got out of hand so have a purple rabbit man

@breannasfluff you're getting tagged cause you helped with design ideas >:3c PLEASE ENJOY HIM